New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-05-15
-y. ,,su as SHE rs SPOKE IN ARIZONA.
sooxs AND MAGAZINES NEEDED AMONG CULTURE


hooKs AND MAGAZINES NEEDED AAoNo 0oL'o"-
LOVING RANCHMEN
"a IN. EDITOR OF The Trto"ne.
SIR; / know q young man named hocne"o" VIZ
,wns n ranch In lower Arizona Ranchhch Dc
v,,e arc very apt TO unite themselves from all ioih
sespop sibiities. There is no corporation cane" ~
ciety 10 be accountable 10. hence they maho ~ an
20 forget that they have any accouhtaois -
But Mr. Rockfclow is an exception W .,aren |
About year ago he bethought hih' VIC "a =, I
around here ought TO he learning sone,niie mo
can induce the Territory OF Arizoh" p" I'm r,aAlv
-. 1,o. od nav me for the work. VIII giaoiy
- .hon, ,,hat 7 know The Territory cohseA'eu
70 the Young mans proposition. and about year ~g
no ,ooS little one-room house near DraSoon' anu -
the name Of the United States Oo'erhn'n'
the children come in and learn a..
-, a. have children Is as fashionable among INC
,anchn,ep and ranchw omen OF Arizona a. among INC
elect OF NeY-YoriK They have the m'eiiis go. IN
there as elsewhere. that there Is ho1 i""N .,a
America TO divide up and so around hehOo -, ia
,rn must he curtailcd. So after MI Kochieho" D r'
- - t,,,a,,o, he found II he would have MS
.ohooI Interesting by numbers, he must eonec' ~"
teriaI from afar off, For result seVefai ni. 49,,
Instance threw up adobes near ,no PROPOSE - 90
sorse and brought down their wives anu enioien "
spend the eight months OF the proposal 0 s,xtsen
Fortv mlos Of country produced apoue siA'eoh
hreht active children and Mr. Rocnellow began his
work The numbers, multiplied by ,ne ara es AGO Of
what hotel proprietor at old Orchard Me- roiI hack 1s
once When he boy In the county, fnmi,iss in
TIE Sdeestrct and oriyeght children In The s1es
Now" said he aeGes rd sopq many fewer children
when children amt croupy or o'n Wrl MIR ROCK
tn I% yoreS himself one OF those teachers than
might With great general pront give Podh nes he
teScS Largely by talking and reading and by h FeaSf
ence He asks no child to learn anything oy nsa near
HS promises Pan the no p saa
self to the mental grade OF the are ~ he same height
and age at the same work His pupils rsaa aa lhe OF
history and ssSSfsphy b S1d san to sp they
along and TO compose they real Ihe t ocedoTv
an n Rl%se Tn S V %Sa DO the readers mn
TRBUsE think he is most enthusiastic soouS for the
t EnS Encsh SPOKEN he says And he knows as we
ali know that ministers and lawyers h anu ED
i ,G aR Ro SSiSss All Of should be
ashamed says ROckiellow "Gt ge sSnna 0 te
geography a tort ct a travers' We s snut Of
ashamed to be found tripping on the sond be ashamed
london or Paris or Boston, we roa 70 smell rightly
But unSlushnry teachers and taught and these r
the highest places cS frE though they may
know any but the ranch life OF % n he has some
SPEAK tner nave ritten in great letters the wall
for the children always to see quote irOH' "''
NV scholars must not pronounce dreadful dretl4'
or catch ketch newspaper noospaPSr; ol
sassc5usetts: or eleven leven height hithe; OF
drouth. drowhe They must not say I not saw any
Ser res or y powheres or anyways or long ways OF
those sort Of things or those kind for that sort oo ama
tbot Kind They must not say he don't Tor ne Tgo
Mt Mt and they must never the word ANT oI Tngy
must soften the In such %OTo So at and opporoon
ity They must not drop maj gs or Pr ic1 nrononnce
wOr one ssv pTav deal for great deal Every word
demands the full authorized verbal mention oi 'n
asked Mr. Rocfellow what he had done MN id E SCp
done and 9n Sen zen e t5 Ss t cden had long
ceased to use either OF these eEpressons ~ WI %
novel experenGe to hear s9o[en al and re-
freshing experience few years hence 20 near topnve
and women az aern csn Selp but wonder sometimes
what an the muchpraised and costly public scho1i boot
and mapy diplomaed graduates can SO rarely taae
part in intelligent conversation ana ,at can is good
Fprlish is the very thing the teachers don't them
And parents too in the home rarely aid or correct e1
their children said to t sShS 6G Tou m allow your
months , afQ in in SaG TSe boy had joined
and said: "Popper the teers Is all g0 ,ame 60
With 'en % The father replied to me: II have re-
mOnsaa with ;, him tst sSt If aEi ' And that
lust it, We Americans are stu very yUn CONNER or
don't quite dare yet to be P3sheo orn m e1uai" "of
But gone long way around to 1 Tesde a
m' S oTH II they win send books or MAGAZINES
make ne beginning Of for prf ts Children Of
blessed little school but for their parents ana IeI 1s
n we'll Tho Territory supplies tho o,,+
same standard schoolbooks that are used throughSu'
the Union and 1 not sure hut that solno for
School society sends little papers lessons; et0 V
Mr. Rocfellow has also Sunday SchOoi class; Dos
I've INT those who know ranch life can tell
IL is moving time in New-York the time whe ~
these NAV be sent TO Mr. Rocfeow he VIII arrange
n nIhlo library, and the benefit resulting VIII 10
$3.50 a AN 7 or any one can write Mr. Rockiehow
+ himself college graduate and 50 are many VI on9
,arrhmen about him, while most OF the ie" wolhcn
;n re neIgbborhOOd have left bright Eastern hOhes
20 Tolloy the leaders destiny. These arc ai INC
,Oora reasons why library Is needed and wouiu oe
valued Sending books by express Is very cosby, ana
the charges of the express cOmany or ' pt NJ
v.cstam states and Mexico very high. But lhls
comnany took for me large Christmas boX Ionl
Angeles 10 these Arizona children iast year
os III nerbans now they will make their contrlbu'
ZION to the library by free carriage OF any BOOKS n
TpInfSFs readers may send. Packages adoesseu 10
Ar Rocl,fcilow Dracoon, Coch1se county Arnohd,,
win he most gratefully received by him on pehan VI
eyerr man woman and child in his nelghborhood
Louisville. Ky, May ~. 1887 MARTIN CALllOuN.